Least Developed Country Category: Central African Republic Profile 2021 | Economic Analysis and Policy Division

* Data from the 2021 triennial review

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LDC status

Inclusion: 1975

Reports and resolutions

	Inclusion
	CDP report: 1975
	ECOSOC resolution: E/RES/1976 (LIX)
	GA resolution: A/RES/3487(XXX)

Gross national income (GNI) per capita*

	Value:		$ 475
	Thresholds
	Inclusion:		$ 1,018
	Graduation:		$ 1,222
	Income-only graduation:		$ 2,444

Human assets index (HAI)*

	Index:		27.4
	Thresholds
	Inclusion:		60 or below
	Graduation:		66 or above

	HAI indicators
	Under-five mortality rate			Gross secondary school enrolment ratio
		Value:	110.1		Value:	17.1
		Index:	39.4		Index:	7.9
		Source:	UN IAG for Child Mortality Estimation		Source:	UNESCO
	Prevalence of stunting			Adult literacy rate
		Value:	40.5		Value:	37.4
		Index:	23.9		Index:	16.5
		Source:	UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates		Source:	UNESCO
	Maternal Mortality Rate			Gender parity index for gross secondary school enrolment
		Value:	829		Value:	0.67
		Index:	31.0		Index:	45.4
		Source:	UN IAG for Maternal Mortality		Source:	UNESCO

Economic and environmental vulnerability index (EVI)*

	Index:		27.7
	Thresholds
	Inclusion:		36 or above
	Graduation:		32 or below

	EVI indicators
	Share of agriculture, forestry and fishing in GDP			Share of population in low elevated coastal zones
		Value:	33.4		Value:	0.0
		Index:	55.0		Index:	0.0
		Source:	UN/DESA, Statistics Division		Source:	CIESIN
	Remoteness and landlockedness			Share of population living in drylands
		Value:	63.1		Value:	2.2
		Index:	66.4		Index:	2.2
		Source:	CDP		Source:	CDP
	Merchandise export concentration			Instability of agricultural production
		Value:	0.31		Value:	2.7
		Index:	25.0		Index:	6.6
		Source:	UNCTAD		Source:	FAO
	Instability of exports of goods and services			Victims of disasters
		Value:	9.7		Value:	0.18
		Index:	19.3		Index:	47.0
		Source:	UN/DESA, Statistics Division		Source:	EM-DAT